8 Jan
2019
8 Jan
'19
3 p.m.
On 08/01/2019 21:37, alan--- via cctalk wrote:
There is a special place in hell for spammers.? There is an even more
special place lower in hell for web site builders that store plain-text
passwords rather than a one-way salted hash of a password.
Oh, there's a worse hell -- I hope -- for the sort of Unix sysadmin (I
won't mention Aaron's name ;-)) put in charge of a sizeable HPC cluster,
decided to password protect it to ensure only a certain set of users
would have access, somehow copied the passwords they used on the main
system, and stored them in plain text on a related machine for his
access control.
He no longer works for the enterprise in question.
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Pete
Pete Turnbull